Wloski lekki krazownik Raimondo Montecuccoli (Profile Morskie 9) (Repost)
S. Brzezinski - Wloski lekki krazownik Raimondo Montecuccoli
BS Firma Wydawniczo Handlowa | 1998 | ISBN: 8390215187 | Polish | 41 pages | PDF | 11.06 MB
Profile Morskie 9
BS Firma Wydawniczo Handlowa | 1998 | ISBN: 8390215187 | Polish | 41 pages | PDF | 11.06 MB
Profile Morskie 9
Montecuccoli entered service in 1935 and was sent out to the Far-East in 1937 to protect Italian interests during the Sino-Japanese War, and returned home in November 1938 after being relieved by the Bartolomeo Colleoni. During the war she participated in the Battle of Punta Stilo and in the successful Battle of Pantellaria, where her guns disabled the British destroyer HMS Bedouin and set the large tanker SS Kentucky on fire.
She was badly damaged by USAAF bombers in Naples on 4 December 1942, but having been repaired and just weeks before the armistice, she shelled without consequences a small Allied convoy off Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily. After the Armistice she was interned by the Allies and returned to Italy after the war to serve as a training cruiser until 1964.